In the United States, Old Glory's familiar red, white and blue, stars-and-stripes design ... present and future—which is precisely what the Juneteenth flag means to Black Americans.

And as we couldn't help but notice, it was adorned with a graphic of an AI-generated Shiba Innu waving a mangled American flag that featured 11 stripes and a deformed mush of about 37 stars.

Howard County Executive Calvin Ball chose Ellicott City resident Esen Paradiso’s design for a new flag, which will be approved by the County Council.